Comment by TonyTrapp

1 day ago

There's a number of VST plugins that get very close - much closer than a static set of filters every possibly could. This is just an approximation.

"very" close is subjective. In my opinion it is nowhere near running audio through real tape. The computation capability needed to fully simulate tape in real time is not there yet. To model all subtle interactions, phase etc you'd need to run audio in 10-100+ MHz range.